Act 1 Flashcards
Complete the paradoxical quotation: ‘with— in funeral and with — in marriage.’
Mirth and dirge
What adjective does hamlet use to describe Claudius and Gertrude’s sheets?
Incestuous
What is the most fitting verb for this analysis- to hamlets mind, women represent weak and delicate, he alludes to inherit weakness in women’s character. His mother, Gertrude — frailty or weakness.
Epitomises
What type of line is hamlets first line
Aside
Who interprets hamlet’s soliloquy as a ‘conversation with different synopses in his brain?’
Benedict cumberbatch
Where is act 1 scene 2 set?
Public court of Claudius
What has Horacio told Marcellus that the ghost is ?
But (his) fantasy
Hamlet describes character flaws as ‘some vicious — of nature.’
Mole
What does feminine ending , i.e. to be or not to be , that is the question;often represent?
A signal or reflection/ concern.
What syllable does a feminine ?
Unstressed
What is the term for shared lines between characters ?
Stichomythia
What does ‘sullied’ mean in
‘O that this too sullied flesh would melt?’
Stained
Fortinbras is a foil for the character of Hamlet; which of these is not a connection?
Both characters have subplots involving loving someone from a lower class.
What is a trochee
A metrical foot with a stressed then an unstressed syllable
Complete Horatio’s quotation:
‘This bodes some strange — to our state.’
Eruption
